Walt Disney’s 1932 Los Feliz residence, dubbed Walt Disney’s Storybook Mansion, is now obtainable to hire for the low, low value of $40,000 per 30 days.
Walt and his spouse Lillian constructed the house in 1932 and lived there for 18 years earlier than transferring to their well-known Homby Hills mega-mansion (the one with a practice within the yard).
The Disneys’ Los Feliz residence was designed by architect Frank Scott Crowhurst, who collaborated with Walt on a variety of initiatives through the years. The home value round $50,000 and development took lower than three months.
In 2011, filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Evening Watch, Profile) bought the property and has since restored it. In line with a Wall Road Journal report, Bekmambetov purchased the home sight unseen and considers himself a steward of the property. Sometimes, it’s opened up for public excursions, typically to boost funds for nonprofit organizations.
Though Disney’s Homby Hills property is the extra recognizable and indulgent property, the Los Feliz home is the place Walt lived when the studio produced its first traditional options together with Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. It’s additionally the place he raised his household.
Clocking in at 6,388 sq. toes, the house has a definite “Disney” look. It includes a Mediterranean entry, a round rotunda, and painted vaulted beamed ceilings in addition to unique stained leaded glass home windows and a Juliet balcony. The house additionally has a theater, in fact, the place Disney may watch dailies or display screen completed variations of the traditional movies that his studio produced through the years he lived within the residence.
The home has 4 bedrooms, three full bogs, and two half-bathrooms and sits on a bit a couple of acre of land. The property has an in-ground swimming pool and sufficient driveway house to park 10 automobiles.
It sits only one mile from the place Disney’s unique Hyperion studio as soon as stood and is without doubt one of the few bodily hyperlinks we have now to the early period of Disney characteristic manufacturing. The Disney Hyperion studios had been demolished within the Sixties, and a Gelson’s grocery store now sits on the property the place they as soon as stood.
